Blackbird~A Young Justice Fanfic

Chapter 4

Delilah's POV

"Are you sure about this?" I sign to Bart. We are currently standing on the front porch of Jamie's house. I'm in civvies, but I have my throwing knives and daggers hidden away, just in case. Bart however, is in his Impulse costume. 

"Yeah Lilah. Everything is going to be fine. Trust me," he replies. I nod my head, showing that I understand. Bart rings Blue Bee-Jaime's doorbell. 

A few moments later, Jamie opens the door. Once he sees us he says, "Dude! What are you doing?", probably referring to Bart in uniform. 

Bart begins speaking quickly, "Here to chill, hang, spend a little down time with my buddy Blue, BB, Beetle, the Bee-tell. You know chillanging?" "And put my secret identity thing at risk?" Jamie asks. Then he looks like he's trying to listen to something. I narrow my eyes at him, trying to decipher his strange body language. "Overreacting won't help," Jamie says out of no where. 

Bart probably thinks that Jamie was talking to him, so he responds with, "Totally. Hey, don't beat yourself up. I'll never get used to this so retro obsession with secret ID's. I mean, what's the point in trying to hide how awesome we are?" 

I disagree with Bart on that point. Even in the future, no one knows any of the Bat's ID's. The only reason Bart knows is because I told him. Secret ID's keep us and our love ones alive. At least they were supposed to. 

Jamie steps out of his house and shuts the door behind him. "If you don't know, I can't explain it," he says. Jamie transforms into his Blue Beetle suit and I look anywhere but the suit. Although I know that it's not this version of Jamie in the future, it still brings back painful memories. Jamie continues, "Let's just get out of here before anyone sees us." 

Before Jamie can fly away, Bart says, "Wait! Can Lilah come along too?" Jamie looks as if he just realized I was there. I give him a shy, little wave. "Uh, yeah sure. I don't see why not," Jamie responds. "Great!" Bart says, grinning. 

Then Jamie flies away and Bart looks to me. "You ready?" he asks me. I give him a nod and he scoops me up, bridal style. Bart starts running at super speed. I cling to Bart like a lifeline. I love it when Bart runs at super speed, it's like the whole world slows down and you can just take in the moment. Take in the feeling of the wind whipping past your face and blowing your hair in crazy directions. It makes me feel so care free, like I can do anything. But that feeling ends as soon as we make it to our destination.

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I sit back on a boulder as Bart and Jamie show off their powers. 

"Here, watch this one," Jamie says before he blasts a boulder to pieces with his sonic cannon. "Well?" he asks in anticipation. Bart looks at him before responding, "Yawn. Really? That's the best you can do?" 

Jamie looks a bit defensive before responding with, "No." He turns around and blasts another rock. He blows on the top of his cannon, like they used to do in those REALLY old western movies, and says, "Top that, hermano." 

I zone out after that. Now that I think about it, I get distracted VERY easily. I focus on one of the rock pieces on the floor as I tried to remember the lyrics to a song that I heard on the radio earlier today. 

I think it went something like, 

The day I

First met you

You told me

You'd never fall in love

But now- 

"BLUE!" I hear. I look up and see some buff girl tackle Jamie to the ground. Then a Tiger Lady and a buff dude go after Bart. I get up from my position and take out my daggers. I run to go help Bart with the villains.